nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/ba0d46aaf6c7970d DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260305s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/ba0d46aaf6c7970d doi eng 342 23 Baumgärtel, Moritz Author aut Forays Into Reality - UN Treaty Bodies Confront Xenophobia But Leave Its Legal Boundaries Unclear Baumgärtel, Moritz Verfassungsblog 2026-03-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier For decades, xenophobia has been relegated to the margins of the UN treaty body system: it was routinely invoked alongside racism but rarely treated as a legal problem in its own right. On February 3, two UN treaty bodies issued two joint interpretative comments on eradicating xenophobia against migrants and others perceived as such. For all their efforts, they dodge the all-important structural tension arising from migration governance: xenophobia is embedded in an international system that recognises the sovereign impulse to police migration not only as a (much critiqued) prerogative but, crucially, as a legitimate objective. CC BY-SA 4.0 CERD Human Rights Migration Migration Governance Racism UN Treaty Body United Nations Vereinte Nationen | New York NY sovereignty xenophobia (DE-588)333-5 gnd Vereinte Nationen | New York NY Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/xenophobia-un/ raw object